6 Cent Herman Melville Moby Dick Commemorative Stamped Envelope
US Government Printing Office bulletin board flyer advertising the 6-Cent Herman Melville “Moby Dick” Commemorative Stamped Envelope.
Herman Melville Moby Dick 6 cent commemorative stamped envelope addressed to the late Frances Broderick, cancelled at the US Post Office, Lansingburgh Station, March 18, 1970
Stamps
Herman Melville and Moby Dick.
By David Lidman
HERMAN MELVILLE'S “Moby Dick”’ will be embossed on a commemorative United States envelope to be issued March 7 at New Bedford Mass., in honor of the author as well as to recall the American whaling industry that once flourished from that Massachusetts port.
The 6‐cent‐stamped envelope will be the first commemorative envelope since one was issued for the New York World's Fair in 1964. Its design is by Bradbury Thompson of Riverdale, Conn., a member of Postmaster General Winton M. Blount's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee.
[...]Melville, born in New York in 1819, died here in 1891 [...] he, at one period of his life, went to sea, including a hitch aboard a whaling ship. These experiences led to “Typee” and “Moby Dick.”
N.Y. Times. January 18, 1970. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/18/archives/stamps-herman-melville-and-moby-dick.html